Forward IT can provide a virtual office to firms without a permanent office location, but who still want all the functionality and security of a server solution. It's ideal for firms without a central office location or with staff that regularly travel.

VMWARE allows multiple virtual machines to share a single server without interfering with each other, thereby permitting a few operating systems/applications concurrently on a single server platform, thereby providing:

•Lower power consumption,
•Lower hardware costs,
•Rack space optimization,
•High system availability,
•Hardware performance optimization,

How Virtual Office works:
The Microsoft SBS 2003 server would be hosted on a VMWARE farm in a secure and air/conditioned server room. Forward IT uses VMWARE the most popular virtualisation technology, which has been adopted by numerous corporate and government agencies across the globe. Remote users would connect to their virtualized server network via a VPN encrypted tunnel over the Internet. Once a VPN tunnel is created, users would have access to corporate drive shares and the Exchange email system. It would be as if the user was physically on the same network in the single office.

Features:

No Onsite Server Hardware Required
Full Exchange Email Functionality
Shared Corporate Folder Access with granular security
Daily Backups Mon-Fri
Secure Firewall Protection
Anti-Spam protection
Server & Exchange Anti-virus protection

What's included:

Server O/S Hosted on redundant VMWARE Farm Infrastructure
Windows MS 2003 SBS Standard Edition O/S (min 5 users)
Defined Service Level Response times
DNS and Web Hosting
Secure and A/C server room with UPS power protection
Daily Backups Mon-Fri
Secure Firewall Protection
Anti-Spam and AV protection